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Just heard on the radio this morning – the extra financial cost of having our troops in Afghanistan is £15m a day. Forget Iraq, Libya and previous adventures elsewhere, forget Syria (?future spend) – just consider Afghanistan.
All round the country, district hospitals, which do very good work, greatly valued by their communities, are threatened with closure/downgrading or it’s happened already. This is on the pretext of being “unaffordable”, “unsustainable” etc.
Take Stafford Hospital, which is now close to a Francis-style quality of care. The financial gap is about £15m and projected over the next few years to get down to as low as £6m possibly (without loss of quality). Let’s say there are 80 hospitals who have had this sort of financial gap finessed upon them (we all know it’s an artificial construct, don’t we).
This means that it is government policy to close or seriously downgrade up to half of all hospitals in England for a fifth of the excess cost of keeping our troops being bombed and fired at in one of our many adventures abroad.
Welcome to civilisation folks!

Sorry, skwalker1964 – cd you remove these last few posts from me as they no longer make any sense without the original link to the article!! Sorry to mess up yr board, wd have edited if I could! Many thanks.